ICE won’t identify felons released in Georgia and across the nation
1:10 p.m. Thursday, May 21, 2015
Jeremy Redmon
The government routinely releases people from immigration detention centers in Georgia and across the nation after unsuccessfully seeking to deport them. The reason: Their native countries won’t accept them back.
Many have criminal convictions, ranging from minor drug offenses to violent crimes, including robbery, rape and murder. Their names, convictions and even their photos are a matter of public record in local courts and jails. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement won’t identify them, citing privacy reasons. ICE also does not automatically notify all victims and local law enforcement authorities before letting them go under orders that they remain in contact with the federal agency.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tracked down some of these criminals and notified their victims of their release. Read more in Sunday’s AJC and online at myAJC.com.
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Pablo Kalusa walked out of a jail in Atlanta nearly five years ago under orders that he keep checking in with the federal immigration authorities who were seeking to deport him to West Africa. Kalusa, a drifter who spent 15 years in state prison for sexually battering a woman in East Point in 1995, is now missing.
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-r...a-and-a/nmLfM/